(A) When a laboratory report, either preliminary or final, gives a positive diagnosis of rabies, the local Town or County Health Officer or the Animal Control Authority ma declare a town-wide quarantine for a period of 90 days and, upon the invoking of such a quarantine, no animal shall be permitted to be at large except on a leash (the maximum length to be no more than six feet) and accompanied by a responsible person.
(B) During such quarantine:
(1) No animal may be taken or shipped from the town without written permission of the Animal Control Authority;
(2) The local town or county Health Officer shall require all dogs, four months of age and older, to be vaccinated against rabies with a canine rabies vaccine approved by the Biologies Control Section of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The local Health Officer may extend this requirement beyond the quarantine period if he or she deems it necessary;
(3) All vaccinated dogs shall be restricted (leashing or confinement on enclosed premises) for 30 days after vaccination. During the quarantine period, the local Health Officer shall be empowered to provide for a program of mass immunization by the establishment of temporary emergency canine rabies vaccination clinics strategically located throughout the area of jurisdiction;
(4) No dog which has been impounded by reason of its being a stray, which is unclaimed by its owner, is allowed to be adopted from the animal shelter, except by special authorization of the public health officer or the Animal Control Authority;
(5) Every animal bitten by an animal adjudged to be rabid shall be destroyed or, at the owner's expense and option, shall be treated for rabies infection by a licensed veterinarian, or held under ten days quarantine by the owner in the same manner as other animals are quarantined; and
(6) In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies occurring, such period of quarantine may be extended for an additional six months.
Penalty, see § 10.99